Re: Robert Joseph Mean

The name 'Mean' has been transcribed in various ways, but this is not unusual as you will know:'Meen', as you pointed out; 'Means'; 'Mein' and so on.As well, you found the marriage registry for Bridget Mahoney.The spelling of 'Mahony' is sometimes written 'Mahoney', and this back and forth in the same line of documentation.Finding the death registration for Eliza 'Meen' in 1864, with the subsequent marriage registration for Bridget 'Mahoney' in late 1866 is a tremendous help in establishing the Thomas Mean/Eliza Meen link to the same family as that of Thomas Mean/Bridget Mahoney.The siblings match veryclosely with those, as mentioned, found in Kent, Carleton County, New Brunswick (1881 Canadian Census)where the transcription of 'Mean' was spelled as 'Mechan'.